Aacen v. San Juan County Sheriff's Department

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a party served with a request for admission of a fact that it knows to be true must admit the fact “even if that admission will gut its case. .. .”
• filing a cross-claim as a separate document instead of asserting it in an answer was a violation of Rule 11 warranting sanctions
• discussing sanctions in the context of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 11
• discussing sanctions in the context of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11
• “Rule 36 admissions are conclusive for purposes of the litigation and are sufficient to support summary judgment.” (emphasis added)
• a party served with a Rule 36 request “must admit [the requested] fact even if it will gut its case and subject it to summary judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).